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Men Explain Things to Me

by Rebecca Solnit

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In Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit takes on the conversations between men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't. The ultimate problem, she shows in her

 

 

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Amazon rank: #33
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bound: 2 hours and 47 minutes
Publisher: Audible Studios
Language: English
ASIN: B00N30J5FA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Men Explain Things to Me Rebecca Solnit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The house was great -- if you like Ralph Lauren-style chalets -- a rugged luxury cabin at 9,000 feet complete with elk antlers, lots of kilims, and a wood-burning stoveAnd no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don'tRetrieved 19 October 2014Contents 1 Summary 1.1 Men Explain Things to Me (2008) 1.2 The Longest War (2013) 1.3 Worlds Collide in a Luxury Suite: Some Thoughts on the IMF, Global Injustice, and a Stranger on a Train (2011) 1.4 In Praise of the Threat: What Marriage Equality Really Means (2013) 1.5 Grandmother Spider (2014) 1.6 Woolfs Darkness: Embracing the Inexplicable (2009) 1.7 Cassandra Among the Creeps (2014) 1.8 #YesAllWomen: Feminists Rewrite the Story (2014) 1.9 Pandoras Box and the Volunteer Police Force (2014) 2 Reception 3 References 4 External links Men Explain Things To MeAnonymous More than 1 year ago I enjoy reading Ms Solnit's work because she makes me think and challenges my assumptions Customer Reviews Average Review Write a Review Share This Item Facebook Twitter Pinterest Google Plus Most Helpful Customer Reviews See All Customer Reviews

 

Ultimately Solnits interdisciplinary, patchwork narratives are drawn together by a single theme: hope." The Baffler "An engaging primer on the realities of mansplaining." Bitch Magazine "Solnits pull-no-punches observationsI wouldn't be surprised if part of the trajectory of American politics since 2001 was shaped by, say, the inability to hear Coleen Rowley, the FBI woman who issued those early warnings about al-Qaeda, and it was certainly shaped by a Bush administration to which you couldn't tell anything, including that Iraq had no links to al-Qaeda and no WMDs, or that the war was not going to be a "cakewalk." (Even male experts couldn't penetrate the fortress of their smugness.) Arrogance might have had something to do with the war, but this syndrome is a war that nearly every woman faces every day, a war within herself too, a belief in her superfluity, an invitation to silence, one from which a fairly nice career as a writer (with a lot of research and facts correctly deployed) has not entirely freed meWomen Fighting on Two FrontsIn that frame of thought, it is so ingrained that woman must be subservient to men that marriage equality would mean the ideological emancipation of women in marriages if they were forced to be considered equalsAt the heart of the struggle of feminism to give rape, date rape, marital rape, domestic violence, and workplace sexual harassment legal standing as crimes has been the necessity of making women credible and audibleShe wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters.This updated edition with two new essays of this national bestseller book features that now-classic essay as well as "#YesAllWomen," an essay written in response to 2014 Isla Vista killings and the grassroots movement that arose with it to end violence against women and misogyny, and the essay "Cassandra Syndrome." This book is also available in hardcover.Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of eighteen or so books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including the books Men Explain Things to Me and Hope in the Dark , both also with Haymarket; a trilogy of atlases of American cities; The Faraway Nearby ; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster ; A Field Guide to Getting Lost ; Wanderlust: A History of Walking ; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award)So I opened an essay for the Nation with this interchange, in part as a shout-out to one of the more unpleasant men who have explained things to me: Dude, if you're reading this, you're a carbuncle on the face of humanity and an obstacle to civilizationWhen I was very young and just beginning to get what feminism was about and why it was necessary, I had a boyfriend whose uncle was a nuclear physicist"Cassandra Among theCreeps"HUAC, he insisted, didn't exist by the early 1960s and, anyway, no women's group played such a role in HUAC's downfall

 

Woolfs Darkness: Embracing the Inexplicable (2009)[edit]I still don't know why Sallie and I bothered to go to that party in the forest slope above AspenSo, MrThe house was great -- if you like Ralph Lauren-style chalets -- a rugged luxury cabin at 9,000 feet complete with elk antlers, lots of kilims, and a wood-burning stoveWhich there rarely isThere's a happy medium between these poles to which the genders have been pushed, a warm equatorial belt of give and take where we should all meet

 

.We were preparing to leave, when our host said, "No, stay a little longer so I can talk to you." He was an imposing man who'd made a lot of moneyPublisher's official book description 31 March 2014That was April 2008 and it struck a chordIn future, I would like Rebecca Solnit to Explain Things to Me."[5] Kate Tuttle of The Boston Globe wrote that it "hums with power and wit".[6] Haley Mlotek of the National Post called it "a tool that we all need in order to find something that was almost lost".[7] Christine Sismondo of The Toronto Star called mansplaining a civil rights issue and wrote that "[Solnit is] the perfect person to explain it to you."[8] Soraya Chemaly of Salon wrote, "It is feminist, frequently funny, unflinchingly honest and often scathing in its conclusions."[9] Katie Moore of the Utne Reader wrote, "At 124 pages, this collection is both an easy read and a difficult oneSo I opened an essay for the Nation with this interchange, in part as a shout-out to one of the more unpleasant men who have explained things to me: Dude, if you're reading this, you're a carbuncle on the face of humanity and an obstacle to civilizationShow More Product Details ISBN-13: 9781608464661 Publisher: Haymarket Books Publication date: 09/01/2015 Edition description: Second Edition Pages: 176 Sales rank: 23,622 Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.20(d) About the Author Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of eighteen or so books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including the books Men Explain Things to Me and Hope in the Dark , both also with Haymarket; a trilogy of atlases of American cities; The Faraway Nearby ; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster ; A Field Guide to Getting Lost ; Wanderlust: A History of Walking ; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award)He thought that being patronized was an experience a woman chooses to, or could choose not to have -- and so the fault was all mine 22c7c4b003

 

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